Die Anlageberatung -- Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Befunde -- Methodik -- Messmethodik Beratungsintensität und Kundenportfoliorendite -- Die Stichprobe -- Empirische Analyse: Deskriptive Statistik und Einflüsse der Anlageberatung auf die Portfoliodeterminanten -- Vereinfachter...

Diversification strategy determines both the scope of a firm's activities and the logic of portfolio composition. It is a cornerstone of corporate strategy, and, according to prevailing theory, it is of paramount relevance for performance. Frithjof Pils presents an overview of the empirical...

The book examines the market reaction to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements over a period from 2003 to 2015. Mergers and acquisitions continue to be amongst the preferred competitive options available to the companies seeking to grow fast in the rapidly changing global business...

Im Sinne der Effizienzmarkttheorie nutzen Hedgefonds Marktpreisanomalien und dienen damit der Steigerung der Markteffizienz. Mit auf Arbitrage ausgerichteten Strategien können Hedgefonds überdurchschnittliche risikoadjustierte Erträge erzielen; allerdings nur so lange, bis die gehandelten...

Value-Based Management, a widely applied reference for strategic management, aims at maximizing sustainable shareholder value creation. However, respective accounting metrics to measure the firm’s wealth creation, such as residual income and Economic Value Added (EVA®), are distorted by...

This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR). To emphasize the importance of risk in conjunction with return, different tracking errors are analyzed and ex-post...